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<html> <head> <title>Pulitzer Prize for Biography</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Pulitzer Prize for Biography HONORS The <a href="/honors/891/000044759/">Pulitzer Prize</a> for Biography, awarded since 1917. <table border=1 class="bordered"><tr> <td><center><tt>1917</tt></center></td> <td>Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott</td> <td>Julia Ward Howe </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1918</tt></center></td> <td>William Cabell Bruce</td> <td>Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1919</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/660/000048516/">Henry Adams</a></td> <td>The Education of Henry Adams </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1920</tt></center></td> <td>Albert J. Beveridge</td> <td>The Life of John Marshall (4 vols.) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1921</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/497/000048353/">Edward Bok</a></td> <td>The Americanization of Edward Bok </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1922</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/628/000104316/">Hamlin Garland</a></td> <td>A Daughter of the Middle Border </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1923</tt></center></td> <td>Burton J. Hendrick</td> <td>The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1924</tt></center></td> <td>Michael Idvorsky Pupin</td> <td>From Immigrant to Inventor </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1925</tt></center></td> <td>M. A. Dewolfe Howe</td> <td>Barrett Wendell and His Letters </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1926</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/641/000127260/">Harvey Cushing</a></td> <td>The Life of Sir William Osler (2 vols.) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1927</tt></center></td> <td>Emory Holloway</td> <td>Whitman </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1928</tt></center></td> <td>Charles Edward Russell</td> <td>The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1929</tt></center></td> <td>Burton J. Hendrick</td> <td>The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1930</tt></center></td> <td>Marquis James</td> <td>The Raven </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1931</tt></center></td> <td>Henry James</td> <td>Charles W. Eliot </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1932</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/709/000399509/">Henry F. Pringle</a></td> <td>Theodore Roosevelt </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1933</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/494/000115149/">Allan Nevins</a></td> <td>Grover Cleveland </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1934</tt></center></td> <td>Tyler Dennett</td> <td>John Hay </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1935</tt></center></td> <td>Douglas S. Freeman</td> <td>R. E. Lee </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1936</tt></center></td> <td>Ralph Barton Perry</td> <td>The Thought and Character of William James </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1937</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/494/000115149/">Allan Nevins</a></td> <td>Hamilton Fish </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1938</tt></center></td> <td>Marquis James</td> <td>Andrew Jackson (2 vols.) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1938</tt></center></td> <td>Odell Shepard</td> <td>Pedlar's Progress </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1939</tt></center></td> <td>Carl Van Doren</td> <td>Benjamin Franklin </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1940</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/536/000113197/">Ray Stannard Baker</a></td> <td>Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1941</tt></center></td> <td>Ola Elizabeth Winslow</td> <td>Jonathan Edward </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1942</tt></center></td> <td>Forrest Wilson</td> <td>Crusader in Crinoline </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1943</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/472/000045337/">Samuel Eliot Morison</a></td> <td>Admiral of the Ocean Sea </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1944</tt></center></td> <td>Carleton Mabee</td> <td>The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1945</tt></center></td> <td>Russell Blaine Nye</td> <td>George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1946</tt></center></td> <td>Linnie Marsh Wolfe</td> <td>Son of the Wilderness </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1947</tt></center></td> <td>William Allen White</td> <td>The Autobiography of William Allen White </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1948</tt></center></td> <td>Margaret Clapp</td> <td>Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1949</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/497/000104185/">Robert E. Sherwood</a></td> <td>Roosevelt and Hopkins </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1950</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/165/000361079/">Samuel Flagg Bemis</a></td> <td>John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1951</tt></center></td> <td>Margaret Louise Coit</td> <td>John C. Calhoun: American Portrait </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1952</tt></center></td> <td>Merlo J. Pusey</td> <td>Charles Evans Hughes </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1953</tt></center></td> <td>David J. Mays</td> <td>Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1954</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/687/000026609/">Charles Lindbergh</a></td> <td>The Spirit of St. Louis </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1955</tt></center></td> <td>William S. White</td> <td>The Taft Story </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1956</tt></center></td> <td>Talbot Faulkner Hamlin</td> <td>Benjamin Henry Latrobe </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1957</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/113/000024041/">John F. Kennedy</a></td> <td>Profiles in Courage </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1958</tt></center></td> <td>Douglas Southall Freeman, John Alexander Carroll, Mary Wells Ashworth</td> <td>George Washington </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1959</tt></center></td> <td>Arthur Walworth</td> <td>Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1960</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/472/000045337/">Samuel Eliot Morison</a></td> <td>John Paul Jones </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1961</tt></center></td> <td>David Donald</td> <td>Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1962</tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1963</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/101/000084846/">Leon Edel</a></td> <td>Henry James </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1964</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/787/000159310/">Walter Jackson Bate</a></td> <td>John Keats </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1965</tt></center></td> <td>Ernest Samuels</td> <td>Henry Adams (3 vols.) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1966</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/645/000114303/">Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.</a></td> <td>A Thousand Days </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1967</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/208/000048064/">Justin Kaplan</a></td> <td>Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1968</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/989/000048845/">George F. Kennan</a></td> <td>Memoirs </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1969</tt></center></td> <td>Benjamin Lawrence Reid</td> <td>The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1970</tt></center></td> <td>Thomas Harry Williams</td> <td>Huey Long </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1971</tt></center></td> <td>Lawrence Thompson</td> <td>Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1972</tt></center></td> <td>Joseph P. Lash</td> <td>Eleanor and Franklin </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1973</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/041/000397844/">W. A. Swanberg</a></td> <td>Luce and His Empire </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1974</tt></center></td> <td>Louis Sheaffer</td> <td>O'Neill, Son and Artist </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1975</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/572/000099275/">Robert Caro</a></td> <td>The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1976</tt></center></td> <td>R. W. B. Lewis</td> <td>Edith Wharton: A Biography </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1977</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/459/000111126/">John Mack</a></td> <td>A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1978</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/787/000159310/">Walter Jackson Bate</a></td> <td>Samuel Johnson </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1979</tt></center></td> <td>Leonard Baker</td> <td>Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1980</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/861/000159384/">Edmund Morris</a></td> <td>The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1981</tt></center></td> <td>Robert K. Massie</td> <td>Peter the Great: His Life and World </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1982</tt></center></td> <td>William S. McFeely</td> <td>Grant: A Biography </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1983</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/955/000115610/">Russell Baker</a></td> <td>Growing Up </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1984</tt></center></td> <td>Louis R. Harlan</td> <td>Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1985</tt></center></td> <td>Kenneth Silverman</td> <td>The Life and Times of Cotton Mather </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1986</tt></center></td> <td>Elizabeth Frank</td> <td>Louise Bogan: A Portrait </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1987</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/667/000395479/">David J. Garrow</a></td> <td>Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1988</tt></center></td> <td>David Herbert Donald</td> <td>Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1989</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/790/000159313/">Richard Ellmann</a></td> <td>Oscar Wilde </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1990</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/465/000366364/">Sebastian de Grazia</a></td> <td>Machiavelli in Hell </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1991</tt></center></td> <td>Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith</td> <td>Jackson Pollock: An American Saga </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1992</tt></center></td> <td>Lewis B. Puller</td> <td>Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1993</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/694/000023625/">David McCullough</a></td> <td>Truman </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1994</tt></center></td> <td>David Levering Lewis</td> <td>W. E. B. Dubois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1995</tt></center></td> <td>Joan D. Hedrick</td> <td>Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1996</tt></center></td> <td>Jack Miles</td> <td>God: A Biography </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1997</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/826/000043697/">Frank McCourt</a></td> <td>Angela's Ashes: A Memoir </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1998</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/533/000051380/">Katharine Graham</a></td> <td>Personal History </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1999</tt></center></td> <td>A. Scott Berg</td> <td>Lindbergh </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>2000</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/689/000129302/">Stacy Schiff</a></td> <td>Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>2001</tt></center></td> <td>David Levering Lewis</td> <td>W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919-1963 </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>2002</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/694/000023625/">David McCullough</a></td> <td>John Adams </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>2003</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/572/000099275/">Robert Caro</a></td> <td>Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>2004</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/048/000397851/">William Taubman</a></td> <td>Khrushchev: The Man and His Era </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>2005</tt></center></td> <td>Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan</td> <td>De Kooning: An American Master </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>2006</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/411/000166910/">Kai Bird</a> and Martin J. Sherwin</td> <td>American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. 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